-cyte

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      22 words ...-cyte • comb. form Biology denoting a mature cell: lymphocyte. Compare with -blast . ORIGIN: from Greek kutos ‘vessel.’

Tonegawa, Susumu

A Dictionary of Scientists;      271 words ......the genes coding for antibody are shuffled at random, so that in the mature cell a cluster of functional genes is formed specific to that cell. Each individual mature cell thus produces its own specific antibody. This potential diversity is...

South Korean Inventor Develops Cell Transistor Fabrication Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 29, 2007 ;     307 words ......mechanical polishing; forming a flash cell pattern for opening an area for flash memory...semiconductor substrate; and removing the flash cell pattern and the moat pattern after etching the...in the area being opened by the flash cell pattern." The inventor was issued U.S. Patent...

Glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix a rare histology. Report of...

Indian Journal of Cancer;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......6] The tumour shows a pure glassy cell pattern or a tendency towards squamous differentiation...5] To qualify as a GCC, the glassy cell pattern should constitute at least one third...Two of our cases showed a pure glassy cell pattern and one case showed a biphasic pattern...

Restoration of Mature Etiolated Cucumber Hypocotyl Cell Wall...

Plant Physiology;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......exogenous expansin-induced extension in mature cell walls in vitro. Recombinant pectate...chelator EGTA could also restore mature cell walls' susceptibility to expansin by removing calcium from mature cell walls. Because recombinant pectinases...

Pap smears may predict bone health.(Gynecology)

OB GYN News;  April 1, 2005 ;     423 words ......osteoporosis than women whose smears show mature cell patterns, a study has shown. The findings...grouped the smears into atrophic and mature cell patterns, which can be easily recognized...Among the 33 women whose smears showed mature cell patterns, 9 had osteopenia and 24 had...

Pap smear cell patterns may predict risk for excessive bone...

Family Practice News;  May 15, 2005 ;     425 words ......osteoporosis than women whose smears show mature cell patterns, a study has shown. The findings...grouped the smears into atrophic and mature cell patterns, which can be easily recognized...Among the 33 women whose smears showed mature cell patterns, 9 had osteopenia and 24 had...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Contiguous Channel Operation Optimization...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 28, 2008 ;     307 words ......method for communicating with automatic meter reading (AMR) endpoints in adjacent cells, when the endpoints are arranged in a cell pattern similar to a cellular telephone system, is disclosed that substantially reduces the likelihood of signal interference. A...

Australia Clones First Calf

Xinhua News Agency;  May 3, 2000 ;     89 words ......Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development have cloned 24 cows and Suzi is the only survivor. Australian scientists used mature cell to clone Suzi and it is the same technique as that used by Scottish scientists to clone the sheep Dolly. In the past, they...

Researchers.(gay parents)(Brief Article)

Chemistry and Industry;  July 16, 2001 ;     97 words ......By using certain chemicals, the scientists were able to coax the egg to expel the excess genetic material introduced by the mature cell, and end up with the right number of chromosomes to develop into an embryo. Sperm and egg cells have only one set of chromosomes...

Splenic inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (inflammatory pseudotumor): A...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......There were 2 growth patterns, namely, a cellular spindle cell pattern and a hypocellular fibrous pattern. An immunohistochemical...pattern reminiscent of granulation tissue2; the compact spindle cell pattern similar to the cellular zones of nodular fasciitis or myofibromatosis...

Cancers that may return.(Features)

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  May 30, 2004 ;     88 words ......the DNA glitches which lead to cancer can originate in stem cells - the 'blank slate' cells from which different kinds of mature cell develop. Even if cancer is cleared from a part of the body, it will return if new tissue grows from stem cells that are defective...

Bone marrow cells can produce epithelial cells without fusion.

M2 Presswire;  July 2, 2004 ;     427 words ......in this model does not necessarily imply that trans-differentiation, a change in phenotype of one mature cell type to that of another mature cell type, has occurred, she said. In fact, we carefully refrain from using that terminology in this...

Taiwanese Inventors Develop Shallow Trench Isolation Dummy Pattern

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 25, 2008 ;     219 words ......Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a integrated circuit device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dummy cell pattern for shallow trench isolation. Active and shallow trench isolation areas are bounded by a circumference. An active area pattern...

Actin filament reorganization in HL-60 leukemia cell line after treatment...

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......megakaryocyte or erythrocyte lineage. GM-CSF also affects the mature cell effector functions, such as oxidative burst, intracellular...maturation of immature myeloid progenitor cells and prime mature cell functions in phagocytes [19]. The use of hematopoietic growth...